„While we support all employee’s right to peaceful, lawful exercise of free speech, any employee demonstrating dangerous conduct that endangers the health and safety of others will no longer have an employment opportunity with Navistar Direct Marketing,“ one company said in a statement.
Some people who were at the Capitol on Wednesday are out of their jobs after images of them at the protests there appeared online. A day after the riots, a direct marketing production company posted a statement on its website: „Navistar Direct Marketing was made aware that a man wearing a Navistar company badge was seen inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 during the security breach. After review of the photographic evidence the employee in question has been terminated for cause.“ „While we support all employee’s right to peaceful, lawful exercise of free speech, any employee demonstrating dangerous conduct that endangers the health and safety of others will no longer have an employment opportunity with Navistar Direct Marketing,“ the statement continued. It did not name the man who was fired. Another case is that of an attorney named Paul Davis. According to Roger Sollenberger, a writer for Salon, he was seen in a video saying, „We’re all trying to get into the Capitol to stop this, and this is what’s happening. They’re teargassing us, and this is not acceptable. Not acceptable, people are not going to stand for this.“ On Thursday, the Texas-based company Goosehead Insurance said in a tweet: „Paul Davis, Associate General Counsel, is no longer employed by Goosehead.“ In a Facebook post on what appears to be Davis‘ profile page, Davis seems to refer to the video Sollenberger shared, saying the video was taken out of context. „I said ‚trying to get into the Capitol‘ meaning to voice a protest. Not in any violent way,“ he posted.
